The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-08
PENIS GROVE, N. j., SATURDAY. OCTOBER

mitted a crime and have done with It,"
cried the impetuous Gregory. GOOD
night, Pm going to bed now, so that
1 may be up by sunrise tomorrow"
Long before the appointed hour the
little Englishwoman was watching at
her window. The doctor was punctual
to the moment. Gregory stole away
softly, trembling lest his sister should
venture to assert her authority. But
Lady Matilda slept peacefully beside
her lord, and no one hindered the girl
from mounting the DOCTORS pony chaise
which set off at q smart galIop, The
doctor no longer wore the attractive
air that had marked him during the
conversation OF the previous night; his
face was sorrowful as IL painful
thoughts had haunted him all through
the hours of darkness. Georgina re-
NAMED silent and Just a little fright
ened, gazing at the landscape which
gradually revealed itself with the rising
of the morning mist; the sterile moor
and the stretches OF heath reaching far
beyond the line of sight. Hardly a
dozen words had been exchanged be-
tween the yaid when Trogueur was
reached and the doctor drew rein to
call on his patient.
While the young lady waited for him
glancing at a volume of Tennyson that
she had brought with her with a view
to killing time, two washerwoman were
hard at work in a neighboring pond,
beating their linen with wooden bats to
get out the dirt.
"Say, Jeanne" said one, ''who's
going to pay the fees Of TINS fine gent
that's doctoring Magloire? The poor
coot hasn't got a cent"
''Fees for the doctor of Audiernel"
calculated the other. THAT shows,
my dear, that you haven't been very
long In this part of the country, Why,
girl, his science, his remedies aid
everything else he gives for nothing;
night and day his little trap Is rolling
along the roads; be is at Penmarch, It
Plogoff, at DouarneneZ-no matter
where, SO long as there Is some unfor-
tunate to be helped. Seems to me that
our good God sent him here to be a
blessing In our villages where life is
SO hard and wretched.
Georgy allowed her book to fall
from her hand and became an eager
listener.
Whatl This man was richl He
might live in luxurious ease, and yet
he had thrown himself into this barren
country as one enters La Trappe or La
Grand Chartreuse. What could have
Ial Asa o%aDo @hikhnr0 Charifu Klamath
or remorse? Here was a mystery that
the romantic maiden would gladly be
enlightened upon, but the sphinx
seemed ~indisposed to part with her
secrets.
The sick call ended. The doctor re-
sumed the reins of the light vehicle
and in half an hour they stopped at
the Hotel de Noryege. Gregory hurried
down her breakfast so that she might
rush to the beach.
The gray mlsts had disappeared, a
radiant sun Illuminated the bay in all
Its fifty-fOur kilometres of circumfer-
ence. The "Du<P 4.
heights within easy
embattled fortres. ,
Of the horizon I -.nA
away into the v Jn3 foothills
of Pauslllipus in the Day of Babe. the
wives OF the fishermen were Squatted
out on the strand mending nets; chill
dren played around In hosts like kit
tens summing themselves, and Rhe sea.
faring men, justly luxuriatmg tn their
rest after hard labor, consumed tobacco
with much and becoming gravity.
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Georglna was delighted. SHE entered
each of the caves opening along the
coast. eager r. collect aid garry
auau oil ri